by James Morton
p. 190
As Detective Constable Stephen Canellis: Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 1984.
p. 191
The Court of Appeal disagreed: R v Noble v Verheyden [1994] QCA 283; Fiori Rinaldi commenting on R v Fletcher, (1980) 4 Crim. L. J.
p. 191
They were refused leave to appeal. R v Cole [2004] QCA 109; Gold Coast Bulletin, 22 March 2005.
p. 191
At the time of the robbery, veteran lawyer: Herald Sun, 13 July 2011.
CHAPTER 15
p. 192
At the relatively low end: Courier Mail, 16 October 2012.
p. 194
At the time of the Lang robbery: Sydney Morning Herald, 27 October 1985; Age, 21 April 1988.
p. 194
He had claimed the sentence: R v Mackley, Neville Graham [1988] VicSC 404; R v O’Garey, Leon James [1988] VicSC 651.
p. 194
In the meantime: Canberra Times, 8 October 1987.
p. 195
After surgery to reattach his fingers: Australian Story, ‘When a Stranger Calls’, Part 2, 3 April 2006.
p. 195
As other types of targets: Carlene Frost and Mark Morri, ‘Home invasions the new “fad”’, Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2012.
p. 196
Given that there are conflicting: Perth Now, 23 February 2016.
p. 196
While at first this was a sneak-thief: Herald Sun, 15 March 2016.
p. 196
Justice Philip McMurdo said although: R v Pryce [2016] QCA 43; Geoff Egan, ‘Machete Attacker Has Plea for Shorter Jail Term Rejected’, Sunshine Coast Daily, 2 March 2016.
CHAPTER 16
p. 197
There is now CCTV: Janet Fife-Yeomans, ‘Screaming Tyres and Sawn-off Shotguns’, Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2013.
p. 197
The car was found soon afterwards: Age, 23 October 1987.
p. 198
Kovacs was identified as a known: ‘The Robber Crushed to Death’, Daily Telegraph Mirror, 23 July 1991.
p. 198
Despite a reward of £1000: Sydney Morning Herald, 14 April 1945.
p. 198
They are defined by the risk-to-yield: Lance Smith and Erin Louis, ‘Cash in Transit Armed Robbery in Australia’, Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No. 397, Australian Institute of Criminology, July 2010.
p. 199
Upon his departures, he would: Tange v The Queen S224/1999 [2000] HCATrans 614.
p. 199
Amateurs tend to be opportunistic: R Matthews, Armed Robbery; Smith and Louis, 2009.
p. 199
There’s limited premeditation in robberies: Sarah Vogler, ‘On the Beat’, Gold Coast Bulletin, 2 June 2007.
p. 199
Intermediate armed robbers are generally: Matthews 2002; Smith and Louis 2009.
p. 199
Professional armed robbers have: Gill 2001; Katz 1988.
p. 200
This type of robbery produced: Georgina Fuller, ‘The Where and When: A Profile of Armed Robbery by Location’, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice; M Borzycki and G Fuller (2014); ‘Armed Robbery in Australia 2009–10’; National Armed Robbery Monitoring Program report. Monitoring Report. Canberra: AIC.
p. 201
In February 2016 she was: Brimbank & North West Weekly, 23 February 2016.
p. 201
The year before, Santalab: R v Franjo Vlado Santalab [2012] NSWDC 266.
p. 202
He appealed his life sentence: R v Tilley, Peter Alan [1983] VicSC 311; R v Perrier, Pop & Tilley [2008] VSCA 97.
p. 203
The trend towards this sort: Kate McClymont, ‘Vincent Tribe Salutes Own in Going Away Party’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 November 2010.
p. 203
However, the total of 159: Cosima Marriner, ‘Gold Coast Fugitives Moving South’, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 August 2011.
p. 204
Benjamin Power received a nine-year: R v Abell [2015] QCA 144.
p. 205
Red Rat Pollitt became a successful painter: R v Guider [2000] NSWCCA 355.
p. 205
She claimed she had been forced: Age, 11–12 February 1999.
p. 206
When Pentridge, where he had been imprisoned: R v Haildey and Alford [1984] VR 229; Age, 6 August 1997.
p. 206
The authorities said he had committed: Leanne Nicholson, ‘Barry Stuart’s Family Call for Inquiry’, WA Today, 22 November 2013.
Acknowledgements
Our thanks go first and foremost to Dock Bateson for her research, advice and help. Without her, this book would never have seen the light of day. They also go, in strictly alphabetical order, to Gary Adshead, Sunil Badami, Nicholas Cowdery QC, Sean Cowan, Paul Danilios, David Dixon, Michael Drury, Sally Heath, Lisa Anne Jones of the Queensland Police Museum, the late Paul Lincoln, the late Billy Longley, Foong Loon Kong, Bernie Matthews, Brian Murphy, Sybil Nolan, Mark Norman SC, John Rigbey, Russell Robinson, Adam Shand, Clive Small and Adrian Tame, as well as a number of people who have asked not to be named. Our thanks go also to the staff of the State Archives of New South Wales and Victoria, the National Library of Australia, the Mitchell-Dixon library in Sydney and the John Oxley Library, Brisbane, the State Libraries of New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia, as well as the British Library and the National Archives, Kew, England. The following websites were invaluable: austlii.edu.au, newspapers.nla.gov.au, Fairfax News Store and paperspast, natlib.govt.nz.
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